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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2021

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The year 2021 pushed us all to learn new lessons in unexpected ways, from deciphering public health statistics about vaccines and masks to refreshing our memory for the Greek alphabet thanks to emerging COVID-19 variants. Flipped Learning Can Be a Key to Transforming Teaching and Learning Post-Pandemic. Top 10 Countdown 10.

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Public Edtech Companies Have Been Rare. These SPACs Will Change That.

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That leaves 2U, Chegg and Stride (formerly known as K12 Inc.) He was an early investor in Chegg, which went public in 2013 and whose stock more than doubled in 2020. He’s also backed Coursera and Course Hero, two privately held edtech companies that are each valued at more than $1 billion. public market.

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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. And it turns out that online language learning is the fastest-growing market segment within the edtech industry. According to Urdan, language learning in the U.S.

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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

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By mid-March, schools closed, sending students home to figure out how to keep learning from their kitchen tables. Never before have schools and colleges so urgently needed digital tools and services to facilitate remote learning—and been less able to afford them. The pandemic came early to Seattle. And customers seem grateful. “If

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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

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While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Course Hero Adds $70 Million to Series B Fundraise

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A combination of “market volatility” and “increased demand for help with remote learning led to a great opportunity to set ourselves up to raise more capital,” Grauer adds. Capitalizing on increased usage seems to be the formula among edtech companies seeking new money this year.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public).

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